Patti Ronnow

The jury is still out. It’s hard to buy a 14 year old girl being a feminist in the first century. It’s like Kidd took someone from the 21st century with their thinking, behavior and knowledge and planted her in ancient Israel. Her western conventional sensibilities—how did she learn all that? She probably wasn’t reading about those attitudes and that kind of progressive thinking in the time the novel is set. But, oh well, it is after all, just fiction, and I guess Kidd can write what she wants. A little unbelievable though.